façade
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Designed by Gaudí, the Nativity façade is both naturalistic and overflowing with natural imagery: lilies and palm trees, a tortoise and sea turtle, insects and frogs, sheep and ducks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Still pending are the sculpting of the south-facing Glory façade, the eventual front of the church, celebrating Christ triumphant, and the addition of a grand entrance staircase envisioned by Gaudí.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And the occasional cracks in what might be called her monumental façade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
On a severely damaged façade there's a sign:
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
But his anger was a façade, easily seen through after a few minutes of talking.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
But under his facade of online success was a life in disarray: He’d lost his construction job.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
BALTIMORE—With its boarded-up windows and peeling facade, the vacant building didn’t seem like the kind of house that would prompt a bidding war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The latest proposal would instead add “Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump” to the facade and name the surrounding grounds “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
But a tarp has remained over the facade since that time, sparking questions about the actual changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
And I don’t know if it fooled other people, but I think Johnny was just putting on a facade, a front.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
Not only that, but a lot of “Love Story” takes place behind the public facades of Kennedy and Bessette, in the offices of Calvin Klein and inside Kennedy’s Tribeca loft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
A 2025 simulation of a densely populated neighbourhood in the French city of Lyon showed that air conditioners installed on building facades could locally raise the air temperature by 1.75C.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Before, she’d been “hiding behind facades, physically overfed and spiritually undernourished.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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